Davide A Cottone

Broschiertes Buch

Vietnam ... Viet-Bloody-Nam

Beschreibung

The story revolves around two childhood friends, Manfred and Tony, who were nurtured in the country-side in the fifties and enjoyed the utopia of a nation at peace that was carefree and full of hope after WWII. Vietnam replaced all that with a dystopia where conflicting ideologies trapped one in the dehumanising cauldron of war and spat out the other onto the streets in protest against it. As they tried to adjust to a new divided Australia one hid from the society that spurned him while the other sought solace in the hippie communes of the North. Years later, they are reunited and search for a way to re-enter the paradise that Vietnam ... Viet-Bloody-Nam, stole from them.

Autor

Davide A Cottone, as an historical fiction writer, playwright and poet, delves deeply into firsthand experiences as he witnesses them unravelling in the world around him. With his forty years' experience as a teacher in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Shanghai and Hong Kong and formal qualifications of an MA in applied linguistics, Davide has the skills as well as the stories which are all based on real life experiences. He has published four full length novels, five musicals, four plays and two collections of his poetry. After his enormous success with his historical fiction novel, canecutter, where Davide captured the migrant experience of new Australians in the sugarcane fields between 1924 and 1985, the author insisted another historical fiction was the best way to get across his message on the tragedy of war in his next novel, Vietnam ... Viet-Bloody-Nam. Mr Cottone believes that when it comes to authors selecting subject matter to write about, it's 'the chatter' that matters. Writers must stay tuned in to the chatter and when something important comes up it's time to get the written word out there. In his latest book, Shriek: an absurd novel, Mr Cottone has seized upon the individual and often collective dilemma of a sense of powerlessness in the global socio-political, economic and technological headspace. He sees powerlessness as a human frailty that the powerful exploit. This trauma becomes host to autism spectrum disorders characterised by a sense of meaninglessness and worthlessness which are the seeds to self-harm and suicide. His genre of choice has now turned to absurdism which allows individuals to interpret the powerlessness phenomenon according to their own idiosyncratic life experiences. This helps give their own lives meaning and makes life worth living.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Publicious Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9780992529314
• ISBN-10: 099252931X
• Artikelnr.: 42518523